From Producing to Reducing Trauma: A Call for “Trauma-Informed” Research(ers) to Interrogate How Schools Harm Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2110148
Author(s):  
Robert Petrone ◽  
Christine Rogers Stanton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Educational Scholarship

Although “trauma-informed education” has gained momentum across the United States in recent years, a question remains neglected by the research community: How can education research inform understandings of “trauma-informed” approaches when education itself is trauma-producing for many students? This article (1) explores limitations of traumainformed educational scholarship, particularly its reliance on individualized, biomedical understandings of trauma; (2) articulates theoretical reconceptualizations for subsequent research to account for historical trauma and ways schools and research inflict harm on students; and (3) calls for expansion of relational, participatory, and humanizing methodologies. Overall, we argue for a shift from research that focuses on “trauma-informed education” to scholarship that enacts a sociohistorical trauma-reducing framework to more effectively interrogate the intersections of trauma, schooling, and research.

Building Knowledge without Borders

2011 ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsie M. Szecsy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Research Traditions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Planning Group ◽  
Shared Problem

The purpose of this chapter is to report on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a “leveling device” between colleagues dispersed across the United States and México, who shared similar education research interests but came from different research traditions. The author reports on the use of various ICT tools in a process that began in 2006 with a small planning group distributed across México and the United States; grew to include additional participants who met face-to-face in Monterrey, México, in 2007; and continued afterward into 2008 through ICT-mediated mechanisms that were structured to maintain purposeful linkages among colleagues dispersed across two countries. Through this slow, deliberate process, the participants increased their capacity for achieving a broader focus on a shared problem as a research community by learning each other’s perspectives. The strategic use of ICT to support collaboration across borders—in real time and asynchronously—assisted in building a binational education research community.

scholarly journals The History of Adversity and Collective Strength of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Araceli Orozco-Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Scoping Literature Review ◽  
History Of ◽  
Baseline Knowledge

Recently, Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) have encountered an escalation in adverse social conditions and trauma events in the United States. For individuals of Mexican ancestry in the United States (IMA-US), these recent events represent the latest chapter in their history of adversity: a history that can help us understand their social and health disparities. This paper utilized a scoping review to provide a historical and interdisciplinary perspective on discussions of mental health and substance use disorders relevant to IMA-US. The scoping review process yielded 16 peer reviewed sources from various disciplines, published from 1998 through 2018. Major themes included historically traumatic events, inter-generational responses to historical trauma, and vehicles of transmission of trauma narratives. Recommendations for healing from historical and contemporary oppression are discussed. This review expands the clinical baseline knowledge relevant to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of contemporary traumatic exposures for IMA-US.

scholarly journals Adherence: a review of education, research, practice, and policy in the United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel M. Rickles ◽  
Todd A. Brown ◽  
Melissa S. McGivney ◽  
Margie E. Snyder ◽  
Kelsey A. White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Practice

Reducing Mass Incarceration Through Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

2022 ◽  
pp. 123-143
Author(s):  
Belinda Marie Alexander-Ashley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Trauma Research ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
School Pedagogy

This chapter outlines strategies and practices that align with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's trauma-informed approach applied to school pedagogy in the United States to minimize or prevent trauma, especially for students referred to the school-to-prison pipeline, consequently reducing mass incarceration. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the United States' health crisis exposed a vulnerability for people of color, poorer communities, and those incarcerated, stressing a need to respond expediently to address trauma in marginalized communities. The Adverse Childhood Experiences Connection referred to childhood trauma as “America's hidden health crisis.” Focusing on trauma for school-aged youth offers a path to preventing or minimizing trauma. Research suggests that more robust, multidisciplinary research, with an intentional purpose to transform teacher practices and responses to disciplinary conduct, is needed.

Victim Assistance in the United States: The End of the Beginning

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene A. Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Victim Assistance ◽  
Supportive Counselling ◽  
Future Focus

This article emphasizes the bond of victimization that is based on the similarities in the injuries endured by victims. Such injuries are financial, physical, emotional or social. At the same time, the paper stresses that each victimization is unique due to the attributes of an individual and the nature of the trauma suffered. Program elements of victim assistance are outlined as: crisis intervention; supportive counselling and advocacy; and support during investigation, prosecution, and after-case disposition. Several areas are identified for future focus: violence prevention, emotional first aid, comprehensive outreach to all populations, research, community-wide disaster response, trauma mitigation, international networking and the need to make rights real.

Gender and Latinx Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirelsie Velazquez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Context

The education of Latina/o/x populations in the United States has been the focus of debates, struggles, and community engagement for over 100 years. From linguistic inequalities, deficit perspectives, and community battles, to contemporary rhetoric on access, this entry explores the relationship between schools/schooling and Latina/o/x communities, both historically and in the contemporary context. Important to these narratives is the role of Latinas. To understand their centrality, it is important that the works of Latina and Chicana theorists and scholars are in conversation with one another to contextualize the role of Latinas, whether as community organizers, educators, or mothers, in the education of Latina/o/x populations, and by extension in the overall well-being of their communities. Similarly, the scholarship on and by Latinas complicates the role of stories and their positionality in education research.

Aboriginal Wellbeing

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-133
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Martin ◽  
Jenni White ◽  
Susan Roberts ◽  
Zac Haussegger ◽  
Emily Greenwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Safety ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Use Of Services ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Political Economic

The aim of this chapter is to contribute to addressing the gap between policy and practice for the development and implementation of accessible health and wellbeing organizations and practices from a culturally safe, trauma-informed approach. The objective is to increase use of services early on by Aboriginal people and ultimately to improve health and wellbeing outcomes. A targeted literature search identifies the main features of cultural safety and trauma-informed approaches followed by the presentation of a culturally safe, trauma-informed framework, and implementation plan. The literature on organizations is predominantly from Australia with the work of Michael Yellow Bird in the United States relied upon for the discussion of decolonization. For improved health and wellbeing outcomes with Aboriginal people, historical and contemporary political, economic, and social contextual factors relating to colonization must be acknowledged, and in the Australian context, particular attention must be given to the stolen generations.

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